Letters to the editor: South Warren needs help

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Regarding the letter from Eleanor Bates about Mayor Fouts and Lincoln High School: I have been a resident of Warren since 1948. I have raised three daughters who went to Van Dyke schools and graduated from Lincoln High School. For anyone to pretend that nothing has changed there, they must be wearing a pair of horse blinders. Bates is just trying to be politically correct. Anyone who wants to be honest with the public will admit that things changed in south Warren when we opened up Eight Mile Road to just anyone who wanted to cross. I am stating it as it is. To deny this is just being blind and dishonest with the public.

WAYNE HALL WarrenRight to work means low pay

The right-to-work is a state law that prohibits unions and employers from agreeing to a contract requiring employees to join a union for employment. It gives employers the right to undermine unions. It is divisive. A worker doesn’t have to join the union at their workplace, but he could still enjoy all the wages and benefits of their fellow union workers. It is a deliberate union-busting tactic.

At a recent forum at Western Michigan University, Dr. Ron Kramer and retired professor Lynwood Bartley discussed the negative affect of a right-to-work law. In Mississippi, Arkansas and South Carolina, Bartley said “workers average $5,300 per year in lower wages, 21 percent lack health care insurance, infant mortality rate is 16 percent higher and poverty rates are at 12.5 percent vs. 10.2 percent in union states.”